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U.S. President Donald Trump, right, holds up a jersey with the number 47 on it as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz look on during a working session at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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U.S. President Donald Trump waits for the start of a working session at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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French President Emmanuel Macron, right, walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Hotel Royal for the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Yoan Valat\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, center, presents U.S. President Donald Trump, right, with a jersey with the number 47 on it as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, looks on during a working session at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrives at the Hotel Royal for a G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Yoan Valat\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n
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EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined world leaders at the Group of Seven summit of major industrialized nations Tuesday for talks on ending the war in Ukraine after more than four years of conflict sparked by Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n
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Zelenskyy was welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of a morning working session with G7 leaders to discuss the war.<\/p>\n
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The Ukraine talks come on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of an agreement to end the 3 1\/2-month-old U.S. war against Iran. Trump said he had good conversations on Sunday with both Zelenskyy and Putin.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that this (Iran) is finished, we\u2019re going to be focusing on that,\u201d he said at the G7 summit.<\/p>\n
Five of the seven leaders, representing Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan, were huddled in conversation with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen before the start of the first session on Ukraine. Trump was missing. Macron, too, hadn\u2019t arrived yet because he was with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Britain announced a new set of sanctions targeting the \u201cshadow fleet\u201d Russia uses to ship oil and gas and the finance networks used by Moscow to evade Western sanctions. The sanctioned ships include several vessels recently purchased by Russia to ship liquefied natural gas from its sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project. Last weekend, U.K. troops seized a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the English Channel for the first time.<\/p>\n
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In recent weeks, the Iran conflict has overshadowed the war in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin launched. Macron said he\u2019ll seek to persuade Trump to continue supporting Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia to help reach a peace agreement.<\/p>\n
Hours before the start of the G7 summit, Russia fired hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine\u2019s biggest cities in a barrage that killed 11 people and set fire to a religious landmark.<\/p>\n
Trump has been frustrated by a lack of movement toward Ukraine-Russia resolution<\/p>\n
The attacks on Ukraine’s biggest cities came after Zelenskyy and Putin spoke separately by phone with Trump on Sunday, the U.S. leader’s 80th birthday. The exchange suggests Washington hasn\u2019t given up on its diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting that followed Moscow\u2019s all-out invasion of its neighbor in 2022.<\/p>\n
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While campaigning for a return to the White House, Trump claimed he could end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours of taking office. He has since acknowledged it has proved much harder than he initially thought it would be.<\/p>\n
Ukraine on Monday officially started European Union membership negotiations, launching a process that will require its government to commit to years of political reforms even as it fights a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n
Ukraine sees EU membership as a security guarantee for a stable future once the war ends. Its best guarantee would be membership in the NATO military alliance, but the Trump administration insists that cannot happen, and others are wary of it joining while the war continues.<\/p>\n
Iran war has been a flashpoint between Trump and European leaders<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s discussions also include a work session focused on \u201cending crises and ensuring stability in the Middle East.\u201d Leaders of Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are to join the talks.<\/p>\n
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In recent months, Trump has had sharp disagreements with Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over his failure to consult them before the decision to go to war in Iran. Trump has threatened reprisals, including drawing down U.S. troops in all four countries, all members of the NATO military alliance, for their lack of support.<\/p>\n
Despite those disagreements, the tone in Evian should be rather measured, as U.S. allies seek rapid progress that could ease the economic impact of rising oil prices caused by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East right now, and very importantly the oil is plummeting down and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Ahead of their meeting at the G7, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement congratulating the United States, the Iranian government and the mediators on what they called a \u201cdiplomatic breakthrough.\u201d Canada also signed the statement. The leaders said it was vital for detailed negotiations to take place and for the deal to be quickly implemented so the Strait of Hormuz can be reopened to tanker traffic.<\/p>\n
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Macron later said France and other Western partners are \u201cready to take action very quickly\u201d to help reopen the strait peacefully. France and Britain have championed a mission to restore maritime security in the strait as soon as conditions allow.<\/p>\n
Trump, however, appeared to downplay the need for a large international military deployment. \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re gonna need much help,” he said during his meeting with Macron. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a bad idea to have a ship or two up here from a few countries. You\u2019d be a great country to do it.”<\/p>\n
What’s next on the agenda<\/p>\n
Trump will participate in meetings that include sit-downs with the emir of Qatar and the president of the UAE before attending a cultural performance and a dinner with the other G7 leaders.<\/p>\n
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The G7 comprises France, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. Other guest nations at this summit, including Brazil, India, Kenya and South Korea, were invited to participate in some discussions.<\/p>\n
Madhani reported from Geneva. Jill Lawless and Samuel Petrequin in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump, right, holds up a jersey with the number 47 on it as British Prime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[145,90302,6736,93465,120605,94080,31231,90306,64644,23681,59373,59371,61262,82,84,83,10487,120606,88437,90305],"class_list":["post-338214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-g7-iran-ukraine-trump-macron-zelenskyy","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-iran","tag-keir-starmer","tag-middle-east","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-ukraine","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}